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If Canada Wants People to Drive Electric Cars It Needs to Build Charging Stations
Canada should take a tip from Norway and support electric vehicles with the necessary infrastructure.
VICE Sports World News Roundup: January 18, 2016
Start your day with VICE Sports. Here's our morning roundup of the sports news from around the world.
The Best Phones We Saw Charging at SXSW
At shows, in the sound booth, in a sponsored charging station, by the fire extinguishers—you name it, anywhere there was an open outlet at SXSW there was someone charging their phone.
A Cardboard 'Pill' a Day Keeps Dead Smartphone Batteries Away
Designer Tsung Chih-Hsien may have the antidote to low battery syndrome, in the form of these small, eco-friendly cardboard pellets.
This Solar-Powered Public Phone Box Charges Your Smartphone for Free
A London project adapts the city's iconic phone boxes into solar charging stations.
Crushed Silicon Could Triple Your Battery Life
The result is a new battery design that holds a charge of 1,000 milliamp hours per gram through 600 tested charge cycles of two hours charging, two hours discharging.
If WiFi Is Water, Electricity Is Fire
In Hurricane Sandy's wake, blacked-out New York City's biggest charging station was like a 21st Century bonfire.
The Phone-Charging Bonfire of Blackout New York City
In the lobby, a family of New Yorkers was worrying, praying, reading, and waiting too. The reprieve they sought was quick, temporary, but essential. They needed a charge.